Love always Perseveres.

Love always perseveres.  Period.  It is the greatest of all things because God is love and He will always be the last one standing.  I choose love.

Love always protects and it always hopes

Love always protects and it always hopes.  When you truly love someone, you will want to stand by them no matter what the situation.  You will always stand up for what you truly believe and should be secure in yourself and in the person that you love because that person would never let you fail intentionally.  They will always be there to pull you back onto your feet and to help you face any repercussions of your actions- good or bad.  A true love always hopes for the most and expects the least in any situation and never questions its validity.

Love Rejoices With the Truth

Love rejoices with the truth.  Without truth in a relationship, it is so hard to trust someone.  There is nothing worse in a relationship than to feel insecure because you do not trust the person you are in the relationship with.  Being insecure is a tough feeling to conquer and causes so many problems along the way if you can not fully trust someone.  Being honest, open, and respectful of others feelings will help others that you love to trust you and in return be easier for you to tell the truth at all times.  One of the worst things that can happen to a relationship is for someone not to be honest and the other to find out the truth from an outside source.  Love always trusts until that trust is broken.

Purpose

"Purpose- everything has a purpose.  Clocks tell time.  Trains take you places.  They do what they're meant to do.  Maybe that's why broken machines make me so sad.  They can't do what they are meant to do.  Maybe it's the same with people.  If you lose your purpose, it's like your broken."
           -HUGO, the movie

There is only one person who can fix us people.  God and God alone.  Find that God given gem (talent) that lies within you and polish it.  Pour into it every day.  It is there for a reason.  No one else knows what it is except you.  You feel it deep in your heart, in your bones.  Do it.  Let that piece of love pour out of you.  Everything else will fall into place.  It's a start in a broken world.  Embrace it and if you don't know what that thing is yet, ask God to help your find it.

Love does not delight in evil

Love does not delight in evil.  The old saying, I believe, says do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not do unto others as they do unto you.  Sometimes I believe people do not realize how their actions affect others.  Whether they mean to be hateful or not, I believe all people want to be be ultimately good.  I know "good" is a relative term, though, because all people are raised differently.  I do know that all people want to be loved and to be loved you have to be able to love someone back.  I believe love is the root of all things good, and should be embraced as such.  Every person on this earth has a God given gem inside them. It is up to you whether you find it, use it for His glory, and let your love shine through it.  There will be no room for evil.  None.

Love keeps no record of wrongs

Love keeps no record of wrongs.  No one makes the right decision 100% of the time.  We all fail at some point and we have to get back up and try again.  It is just too bad that people get hurt along the way.  When someone truly cares for you, though, they will always stand by you, even when they don't fully agree with what you are trying to accomplish.  If you make a wrong step, they are there to guide you back on track and make you aware of how you are affecting others.  Loving someone means telling them the things in life that hurt the most.  As hard as it may seem to forgive someone for something at the time, you will feel so much better to let it go and try to move on, but always carry the lesson that life has bestowed you.  These are the small things in life that are free, but sometimes are worth the most.

There's more

I tell you...  There is more to this parenting thing than I realize after almost 6 years of doing it.  I am supposed to be teaching my daughter you guys, but she's really teaching me.  She is teaching me to be patient, though I'm not a great student.  She's teaching me to be kinder.  She is teaching me that the small things matter as long as we are together.  She's teaching me how to love better.  I know that sounds weird to some, but when your your heart gets broken along your way in life, you have to learn to love better.  If you don't, that anger and resentment sets in and takes over.  It's taken me down before, but she's teaching me to let it go and she doesn't even know it.

There's definitely more to his parenting thing.  This picture is a reminder to be kinder and love more.  I was taking a small nap, ahem, today.  Yep- I was, okay?  They call it a siesta in Mexico.  So, I had told my daughter to read and be quiet.  I just needed to rest me eyes a little.  I started to fall asleep and as soon as I did I hear her come into my room.  My mommy radar goes off as soon as one of my children enter my room any time, day or night.  So I try to ignore her and keep my eyes shut.  Start to go back to sleep and she comes in again right as I am falling back to sleep.  Patience.  Ignore.  The third time I had had enough.  As soon as I open my eyes she has a question for me, so I explode "Get Out!"  There.  I cannot believe she kept walking back and forth into my room to ask me THAT question.

Well by then, my nap was over.  I get up out of my bed and almost pass it.  Almost.  There is an envelope laying by my bed. I picked it up.  Sealed.  I open it and I realize why my daughter was coming into my room.  She was drawing pictures and sealing them up and laying them by my bed so when I got up I would find them.

That's it people.  Be kind.  Be patient and don't overlook the small things because if you do, the bigger things just aren't as worth as much.  Learn from the little ones.  They have lots to offer.  I'm still learning too.